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LAMPE, Mo. -- Two juveniles being held Friday in the deaths of an elderly couple had run away from a local at-risk boys ranch earlier this week, officials said.

"The boys had run away, and we had reported that to the proper authorities," said Richard Bottorf, chairman of Lives Under Construction Ranch.

Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said police had no indication from the report that the boys were dangerous.

The two are being held in the deaths of Paul and Margaret Brooks in a Table Rock Lake home Thursday night.

Stone County deputies received a call from a resident at 5:43 p.m. CST Thursday. The man, who was not identified, reported that he was holding two young men at gunpoint after confronting them for suspicious behavior. The man continued to hold the juveniles, ages 15 and 16, at gunpoint for 14 minutes until the first sheriff's deputy arrived.

Paul Brooks, 70, and Margaret Brooks, 69, of Baldwin, Mich., were found dead inside the home. The bodies have been sent to Columbia for autopsies, after which the sheriff hopes to know more about how they died.

"Apparent signs of foul play prompted further investigation," Rader said.

The two juveniles were first spotted taking items from the house next door, according to a neighbor.

Jack Martin, who owns the house next door to the victims, a rental which had been vacant for several months, received a phone messages from a neighbor across the street from where the victims lived.

He called the neighbor, who told him that the Brookses were dead.

"I just could not believe it," Martin said.

The Brookses were seasonal residents, according to a neighbor who declined to give his name. They typically arrived around Thanksgiving and returned to Michigan in April or May.

"They were great people," the neighbor said. "They were both in poor health. He had had surgery on his foot and had lost a toe. She had had knee surgery."

Tina Brooks, a relative of the Brookses, confirmed the couple had lived in the Baldwin area, north of Grand Rapids, for the past several years.

The Stone County Sheriff's Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control are continuing an investigation into the deaths.